Competency-Based Education (CBE)

What is CBE?

The following tenets of CBE were found here

Competency-based education is a system in which:

• Students are empowered daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning.

• Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.

• Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.

• Students are getting constant meaningful feedback from teachers as they work toward mastery. Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.

• Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time.

• Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.

• Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems.

• Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.